On the 2nd release of our limited vinyl series, Etui founder Insect O. shows a more diversified musical work. The sound ranges from rough and deep techno to break beat-electronica.

Whilst you are standing on top of Victoria Peak in Hong Kong and looking down to the city, you see majestic birds flying around the massive skyscrapers. In this moment you can feel the harmony between the stressful city and the nature surroundings. This feeling was the inspiration for Insect O. `s “Birds over Hong Kong”. Once again he spreads his love for deep techno with spacey chords and driven beats. Marko Furstenberg, who also played in Hong Kong in 2010 made a more Detroit techno inspired remix of the track. He is well-known for his releases on Ornaments or Rotary Cocktail.

“Rusty” is like your 17 years old car with which you drive every weekend to some dark techno parties in dirty underground locations. With its straight beat and spacey organ sounds the track tells you all about rough techno. In “Echoes of Antarctica” ice cold chords combined with a yearningly pad are flying over broken beats. It is an adventure trip to one of the coldest place on earth and shows a more experimental side of Insect O.’s work.

“Birds Over Hong Kong” is available as green/black marbled vinyl limited to 400 copies.

All tracks written & produced by Oliver Hartmann. B1 additional produced by Marko Fürstenberg. Photos taken by Oliver Hartmann. Artwork enhanced by WCMYK.
Mastered by Salz Mastering. Manufactured by R.A.N.D. Muzik.

Copyright Etui Records 2012. Copyright Control. All rights reserverd.

some selected feedbacks:DJ Mixed & Bigshoot Magazine: While the techno cuts on this release are enough to keep everybody rocking, the Echoes of Antarctica breaks jam is top notch!Acid Pauli: Birds all over the place!Mr. Statik (Bpitch): great deepness here, really digging Rusty and the amazing echoes of antarctica!Noah Pred: Feeling Fürstenberg’s ultra-deep take on this one…Patrick Zigon: Amazing EP!Patrick Bateman: Of course Marko is spot on as usual! Love his work!Pascal Feos: nice deep stuffToby Dreher: Ultra Fett !!!!Pauli Steinbach (Cocoon Recordings): Rusty ist sehr geil…!Alexander Maier: great dub techno how it should be. totally into mr. fürstenberg interpretation. will play in my early morning tech head sets.
Estroe: Quality release!! Love almost all the tracks, I’m a bit less into the broken beat ‘Echoes of Antartica’ But the rest of the tracks I’ll definetely play.